Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sufficiency by teaching inner-city people how to raise organically grown vegetables. Another project involves construction of solar-powered hot-water heaters on apartment roofs. A third seeks to increase food supplies by teaching people to raise fish at home. "It's protein," says Hess, pointing to a tank full of tiny rainbow trout. "You can trade them or sell them...
...Communist forces had brought enough artillery to the edge of the city to level it utterly if they chose to do so. On the northern edge of Saigon, flatbed trucks piled high with crated ammunition roared away from the supply depot at Newport, their air horns shrieking. The Newport tank farm burst into flame with a series of explosions that shook the ground and sent clouds of black smoke, easily visible from the center of Saigon, billowing into...
Before noon five Communist tanks, a dozen armored personnel carriers and truckloads of green-uniformed troops who wore helmets inscribed TIEN VI SAIGON?Onward to Saigon?swept down Unity Boulevard to the presidential palace. The gates had been left ajar, but one tank, followed by several others, smashed through the fence nonetheless, then fired triumphal salvos. One detachment of troops drove off in a Jeep with Minh to an undisclosed location; later he was brought back to repeat his surrender announcement before being whisked away again...
Nearly everyone these days has fantasized about the ultimate bank failure or Dow Jones plummet. The solution: a ready supply of cash or jewelry. But where can they be secreted? At the back of a picture? Too obvious. In the toilet tank? Too amateurish. In a loose floorboard? Too melodramatic. Into this paranoid quandary steps Krotz with a toolbox full of solutions...
...whole world: Is the U.S. protecting Israel within its borders or is it also protecting Israel in its gains of others' lands? From our side, we have no objection at all that America protect Israel within its borders, even to the extent of providing every Israeli with a tank and an airplane. But I think the time has come that the U.S. should understand its interest and its friendships in the area and should take an objective look...